when i think "first world problems" the first thing i always think about is my brother's college apartment. it had a 14" television w/ the little RCA/AV jacks on the front for plugging in a Nintendo or a DVD player. You'd walk in and see a small skillet hanging from the RCA jacks by a shoelace. When you'd ask them what was up with that they'd explain that the RCA inputs on the TV were kind of fucked up and only really worked if you applied some pressure to them in the downward direction, so to have uninterrupted dvd/nintendo they hung a weight that apparently did the trick.
Also see thereifixedit.com
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 23 April 2011 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I had an old TV in my college house that needed to be hit really hard every once in a while to work so we kept an old shoe tied to a belt on the coffee table so you could swing and hit it without having to get up. We also chained the remote to the coffee table after the most stonerish of the roommates took it to class with him for a week after mistaking it for his scientific calculator.
― joygoat, Friday, April 22, 2011 9:06 PM (Yesterday)
this post rules
― markers, Saturday, 23 April 2011 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
new yorkers piling up unread; new yorker magazine alert thread taunts me
― horseshoe, Sunday, 24 April 2011 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Increasingly don't find NYer worth cover-to-cover reading, fwiw. Let yourself just read the articles that grab you. #firstworldsolutions
― rock rough 'n' stuff with h.r. pufnstuf (Hurting 2), Sunday, 24 April 2011 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
always read the comics
― gr8080, Sunday, 24 April 2011 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
the cartoons
I read the poems always like at least one of them
― wewetyourpants.com (rip van wanko), Sunday, 24 April 2011 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ the bank of america posts. i work at b of a (*at*, not *for* -- it's a long-term contract gig through an agency) and even i don't have an account with them. my accounts are with hsbc for checking and a credit union for savings. thinking of moving my checking into the credit union too.
― pan loco y salsa loca (get bent), Sunday, 24 April 2011 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
― gr8080, Monday, 25 April 2011 08:01 (thirteen years ago) link
― gr8080, Sunday, 1 May 2011 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i feel like the shift pattern i do at my very easy office job means working hours that are too long, 10 hour shifts sometimes, but i'm unsure if it's worth the almost £200 less a month i would get if i switched to dayshift with flexi time doing 36 hours per week.
― tending tropics (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 1 May 2011 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i have to walk ten minutes to the nearest grocery shop that has a decent range/pricing and frequently when i'm doing so it rains.
― tending tropics (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 1 May 2011 00:12 (thirteen years ago) link
it is not my turn in any of my facebook scrabble games
― sarahel, Sunday, 1 May 2011 00:35 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^
― venom p. stinger saddened by royal snub (electricsound), Sunday, 1 May 2011 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
when I turn on my AC it's a little too cold but when I leave it off it's a little too hot
― br8080 (dayo), Sunday, 1 May 2011 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link
having to remove these fucking stickers from my fruits and vegetables
― no slouch of a snipster (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
but **YOU DON'T HAVE TO**
Do you eat the stickers on your apples, pears, other non-peely fruit?
― jj n° fad (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 04:05 (thirteen years ago) link
i keep forgetting what happened in the previous episode of a tv series by the time i get around to watching the next one
― Will.Have.Known (Local Garda), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 08:58 (thirteen years ago) link
they are digging up my street using a pneumatic drill plus some truck that pummels apart the pavement at 7:30am on a Saturday WTF??!
― dell (del), Saturday, 11 June 2011 11:57 (twelve years ago) link
Dude they've been doing that all week; for fucks sake, how did you manage to sleep through it until now?
― cheese wiz khalifa (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 11 June 2011 12:12 (twelve years ago) link
dunno, guess my earwax must've become unimpacted during last night's brief slumber
― dell (del), Saturday, 11 June 2011 12:23 (twelve years ago) link
forgetting to attach an attachment to a work email :(
― gr8080, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
FYI This is the view from dell's living room window @ 9AM last Tuesday (I think)
http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/3eb032ef.jpg
― maximum biker daddy realness (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
did this w/ a long detailed e-mail sent to ~300 people once. :''(
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 07:12 (twelve years ago) link
my PC at home has malware and I can't use Google or Bing bc their search results auto-redirect me to freaky diseased sites
I mean I guess that could happen in the third world too but there's something pretty... entitled about getting butthurt over the crappiness of ask.com
― Beth Gibbons & Foreskin Man (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 08:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/nCGTA.png
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Friday, 15 July 2011 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
didn't have the patience to steal a pdf of a modern translation of lucretius from a rapidshare-style filedump, had to make do with a free old-timey translation from the internet classics archive
― j., Friday, 15 July 2011 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
;-)
― dave barry (absolutely clean glasses), Friday, 15 July 2011 04:17 (twelve years ago) link
"first world problems" is kind of a way to get yr nag on w/some "you know there are HUNGRY PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD" & get a pass doing it to people other than yr kids y/n - why should you have to wait til you've got a teenager to cop this look amirite
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 17 July 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
have to put sheets on my bed, would pretty much rather kill myself
― J0rdan S., Monday, 18 July 2011 06:05 (twelve years ago) link
"first world problems" is kind of a way to get yr nag on w/some "you know there are HUNGRY PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD" & get a pass doing it to people other than yr kids y/n - why should you have to wait til you've got a teenager to cop this look amirite― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, July 17, 2011 5:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, July 17, 2011 5:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
spoken like someone who didn't have to grow up with the entitlement generation around them 24-7 http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif
― "oh shit, i'm gonna spotify you so hard!!" (dave cool), Monday, 18 July 2011 06:08 (twelve years ago) link
― J0rdan S.
looooool i have to do this too if i don't want to sleep on a mattress cover tonight
― markers, Monday, 18 July 2011 06:29 (twelve years ago) link
- have to get up sometime in next ten mins to go do an easy job that covers my bills fml
― who shivs a git (darraghmac), Monday, 18 July 2011 06:37 (twelve years ago) link
power's out, battery backup for my wireless internet might not last long enough for me to keep farting around on the internet all night
― j., Saturday, 23 July 2011 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
when is the iphone going to introduce a "compilation" button like the ipod has, ffs
― jay r?tard (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 23 July 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
Whiney: click "more" in the lower right and it's there. If you want it as a button on the lower bar, click "edit" and you can drag buttons on/off the bar at the bottom.
― mh, Saturday, 23 July 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
hipster puppies 2: furs twirled problems
― drowning cool (some dude), Saturday, 23 July 2011 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
bite privilege
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 23 July 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
had to spend money on a car repair that I had set aside for a European vacation
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Monday, 25 July 2011 00:43 (twelve years ago) link
you can't drive you Europe from there!
― Kerm, Monday, 25 July 2011 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
uh, to, wtf??
― Kerm, Monday, 25 July 2011 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
Whiney: click "more" in the lower right and it's there. If you want it as a button on the lower bar, click "edit" and you can drag buttons on/off the bar at the bottom.― mh, Saturday, July 23, 2011 12:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― mh, Saturday, July 23, 2011 12:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Nah, I mean when you sort by artists, anything in a comp shows up. it doesnt do that on a pod. drives me nuts
― Dave Coolaid for Sade (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 25 July 2011 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, yeah, that is lame as hell and annoys me.
― mh, Monday, 25 July 2011 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
That fucks me off too. It happens on the Apple TV and there's no easy way to get to the end of the artist list. Ridiculous.
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 25 July 2011 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
imo Apple TV kind of sucks browsing music unless you do it from an iPhone/iPad
and then it's awesome
― mh, Monday, 25 July 2011 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
lol kerm
― drowning cool (some dude), Monday, 25 July 2011 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
Stood on what might have been a piece of glass earlier and ripped the sole of my foot open, now I'm worried I won't be able to go clubbing this week or enjoy my Europe holiday next week because it hurts so fucking much to stand on
― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
broken glass everywhere, problems in the first world you know they just don't care
― some dude, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
so sad that they don't have glass yet in the third world
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
Three stitches and told to let it rest so it heals quickly, might as well just end it now.
― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Thursday, 28 July 2011 13:08 (twelve years ago) link